지방행정공무원의 사회자본이 부패에 미치는 영향

The Effect of Corruption to the Social Capital of Local Officials

Social capital do not always produce effect as some researchers have argued. Sometimes certain types of social capital work to the primal cause of distrust both at the individual and social levels. Here I focus on just one of these social bads: bureaucratic corruption, by which I shall simply mean those action that deviate from public norms of decision-making for the sake of private gain. In corruption research, it is often argued that in high-trust societies. i.e. societies with a high level of trust in anonymous others and institution, there exist lower corruption rates than in low-trust societies. As demonstrated in neither situation nor person specific; the higher the (generalized) trust in anonymous others and institutions, the lower the corruptionS